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Byron Energy announces find off Louisiana

Jun 25, 2014

Byron Energy Ltd. announced that the Byron Energy SM 6 #1 BP01 well reached a measured depth of 2338m and a true vertical depth of 2321m as of 23 June. Current operations are circulating in preparation to trip out of the hole to change the drill bit…

EV gets cash backing

Jun 25, 2014

UK-based downhole video technology specialist EV has completed a £69 million management buyout backed by Dunedin, the UK mid-market buyout house. Headquartered in Norwich, EV provides downhole video applications for the oil and gas industry…

Technip takes Inocean stake

Jun 25, 2014

Technip has agreed to take a majority stake in Norwegian firm Inocean after entering into a strategic cooperation agreement with the firm, to further develop offshore floater engineering services for the Norwegian continental shelf and other offshore markets worldwide…

Total drops Skandi Aker

Jun 25, 2014

Aker Solutions' subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services was notified by Total in Angola of the termination of a US$250 million, two-year contract for the Skandi Aker vessel. Skandi Aker started operations as a well-intervention vessel for the first time in September last year…

Dry well for E.ON E&P Norge

Jun 25, 2014

A wildcat well drilled by E.ON E&P Norge in production licence 558 was dry, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Well 6507/5-7, which was the first well drilled in PL 558, was drilled about 18km southeast of the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea…

TGS to start NE Greenland shoot

Jun 25, 2014

TGS is to start acquisition of a new multi-year, multi-client 2D program offshore Northeast Greenland. The project will be fulfilled over a maximum of four seasons, bringing TGS' total multi-client database in Northeast Greenland to more than 36…

Premier FD becomes CEO

Jun 25, 2014

Tony Durrant has been appointed CEO of UK-based exploration and production firm Premier Oil, with immediate effect. Durrant replaces Simon Lockett (pictured), who announced his plans to resign from Premier Oil in February this year. Read…

Irish oil implications 'immense'

Jun 25, 2014

One successful oil discovery in Ireland’s offshore Porcupine basin could supply all of Ireland’s oil demand, if not more, according to exploration minnow Petrel Resources.  The Dublin-based firm is hoping to take part in drilling in the…

PGS to shoot Australian seismic

Jun 24, 2014

PGS announced plans for Springboard, a new multiclient 3D program in the Ceduna sub-basin offshore south Australia using the company's GeoStreamer technology. Acquisition is planned to start in late 2014 on this program, which will cover some 8000sq km of broadband GeoStreamer data…

KrisEnergy contracts jackup for Thai campaign

Jun 24, 2014

KrisEnergy Ltd. an independent upstream oil and gas company, announced it has contracted the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig for development, appraisal and exploration drilling in two licenses in the Gulf of Thailand. The contract with Shelf Drilling (Southeast Asia) Limited…

Deploying EOR solutions

Jun 24, 2014

BP provides this video discussing its designer-water and designer-gas enhanced oil recovery (EOR) solutions and how they have been applied to BP's various developments including Clair Ridge and Ula. You can read more about BP's LoSal technology in the June 2014 issue of OE.

FES inks Western Isles project

Jun 24, 2014

UK oil and gas engineering firm, FES International, has secured a US$2.5million contract to supply its automated Diverless Bend Stiffener Connector (DBSC) to NOV Flexibles, for use by Subsea 7 on the Western Isles Development (WID) project in the northern North Sea area…

Bowleven bags partners for Etinde

Jun 24, 2014

UK-based, Africa-focused explorer Bowleven has agreed to sell a 50% stake in the Etinde Permit, offshore Cameroon, to LUKOIL and NewAge, for about US$250 million, under a conditional agreement.  LUKOIL is to acquire a 37.5% interest in the Etinde Permit…

Emerson opens Stavanger flowloop

Jun 24, 2014

Emerson Process Management has opened a flow loop facility for Roxar technologies in Stavanger. The new facility will increase production capacity and drive future developments in multiphase meters, enabling oil and gas operators to access…

Maersk picks Technip for Danish project

Jun 24, 2014

Technip has been awarded two contracts by Maersk Oil for the Valdemar and Roar gas lift project as well as the Rolf replacement pipeline project, on the Danish Continental Shelf, 250km offshore Esbjerg, Denmark. The scope of work will…

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